Chapter 790 First Day Points Ranking
The food in the canteen was very plentiful.
The King of Qin was willing to spend money, so the canteen had no shortage of funds and used only the finest ingredients, including chicken, duck, fish, and meat.
Pang Jie, Li Jian, and the others stopped asking to be served. They took their own plates, went to the window to get their food, and ate a large plateful, thoroughly enjoying their meal.
After finishing their meal, the group wiped their mouths and prepared to leave.
The canteen cook came over and reminded everyone, "After you finish your meal, please put your plates in the designated area. Gentlemen..."
"Shut up." Pang Jie glared at them coldly. "I've already been very lenient by taking matters into my own hands. You're still pushing your luck. Go away, get out of here."
He got up, dusted off his shoulders, and swaggered away.
Li Jian picked his teeth and said, "Brother Pang, isn't the first class this morning Madam Sui's? Are you going?"
"Go to hell!" Pang Jie said coldly. "What did you learn yesterday afternoon? You didn't learn anything, did you? She has no real skills. Going there was a waste of time. You might as well go back and take a nap."
A young master next to me whispered, "I was so hungry last night that I couldn't sleep. I finished writing the article that Madam Sui asked me to write. Now that I've written it, it would be a huge loss not to hand it in."
Li Jian's eyes widened: "You actually wrote articles behind our backs? Do you even want to stay in this business?"
“I…” The young master lowered his head. “As you all probably know, my grandfather went to the battlefield and died on the frontier, his remains never found… Yesterday, when Madam Sui was lecturing, I thought of my grandfather whom I never met, and I felt compelled to do something. Only after writing that article did I feel at peace…”
Several other people also spoke up.
"Mrs. Sui's class was actually quite good and thought-provoking."
"I also wrote down some thoughts about yesterday's class, so I'll hand them in."
"Don't worry, Brother Pang, we'll leave as soon as we hand in our homework. We definitely won't stay in class..."
As the group was talking, another follower came running over, panting: "Brother Pang, something terrible has happened!"
Pang Jie frowned: "What is it?"
"There's a leaderboard posted at the classroom door, and you, you, you..." The follower stammered for a while before finally saying, "Brother Pang, you, you're in last place."
Pang Jie said nonchalantly, "Last place is last place, I don't care."
He was the son of a Grand Secretary and had been studying at the Imperial Academy. He was always at the bottom of his class there because of his poor performance. His father felt ashamed of him, so he sent him to the Pang family's clan school. Even there, he was still at the bottom of his class during the exams.
So what if he came in last place? He's used to it.
Li Jian leaned closer and hurriedly asked, "What about me? What number am I?"
The follower thought for a moment before saying, "Brother Li is in twenty-third place."
"What?" Li Jian was stunned. "Fifty-four people, and I actually got twenty-three, which is more than half of the people, hahaha, oh my god, I've actually made something of myself. If my dad knew I was twenty-third, he would be overjoyed. Come on, let's go check out this damn points leaderboard."
He laughed for a while, then turned his head and found Pang Jie with a dark face.
"Hey, Brother Pang, this is just a low-level points leaderboard, it's not important, haha." Li Jian put his arm around his shoulder. "You didn't sleep well last night, go back to your dorm and get some rest. As for me, I'll go and gather some information for you..."
Pang Jie looked around at his group of followers: "We all performed exactly the same way yesterday, so why am I the last one?"
He doesn't care what place he is, but since everyone else is in the same position, why is he at the bottom?
This is clearly Madam Sui deliberately targeting him.
He scoffed, "I'd like to see how this points leaderboard is actually ranked."
He flicked his sleeves and walked toward the classroom.
Upon arriving at the entrance, a large group of people were gathered around the points leaderboard, checking the rankings.
As soon as they saw him approaching, the crowd automatically parted to make way.
He glanced at the list and saw that the first place was Peng Wang, a fellow townsman of Madam He Sui. This was clearly favoritism.
Next, from second to thirteenth, were those scholars.
Next up was their group.
“Brother Pang, actually your score is not much different from ours, the main problem is here.” Li Jian pointed to his finger, “One point was deducted for misbehaving in class, so you became last.”
The list only has a few categories for adding and deducting points. The only deductions are for absenteeism and classroom misbehavior, and the only bonuses are for in-class assignments. The difference in points between each person is not significant.
Li Jian was ranked twenty-third. He thought he was very good, but after looking at the list, he realized that there were thirty-one people in twenty-third place. He went from twenty-third to second to last, and the last place was Pang Jie.
Pang Jie's face darkened: "What the hell is this 'classroom misbehavior'? Was it intentional?"
"Then let me explain." A clear, cold voice came, and Cheng Wanwan walked over, her face still smiling. "In class yesterday, Pang Jie, you put both feet on the table. Do you think that's proper conduct? As for your other rude behavior towards me in class, I can take it as a lack of trust in me. As a woman serving as a teacher, I am indeed not very convincing. Therefore, I did not deduct any points. However, if anyone else behaves rudely and offensively like yesterday, it will not be as simple as deducting points. I will notify your parents to come and apologize on your behalf."
Just as she finished speaking, the school bell rang.
She walked into the classroom. "Everyone, come in and get ready for class."
The students rushed into the classroom. Pang Jie didn't want to go in, but he was pulled in by the crowd.
He sat down in his seat, his face ashen.
"Good morning, everyone." Cheng Wanwan said with a smile. "I wonder if everyone still remembers yesterday's homework, which was to learn about the history of the Asab Kingdom and the Dayu Kingdom. Those who have completed the homework can hand it in now."
Peng Wang was the first to get up and hand in his homework, followed by the group of scholars.
Cheng Wanwan thought that was about it, but to her surprise, eight of those spoiled brats actually finished the assignment.
An essay of 300 words is actually very short and can be read at a glance. She glanced through it, picked out three assignments, and said with a smile, "These three students have done a very good job. Each of them can get three points, and the rest of the students can get one point each. It's okay if you didn't submit your assignment. Considering it's the first time, we won't deduct any points."
"Tch!" Pang Jie turned his head and muttered, "I don't care about these worthless points."
Don't even think about using points to make him obey.
Cheng Wanwan's gaze swept across his face, and she continued, "Next, we will invite these three students to read their homework. The first one is Peng Wang."
Peng Wang stood up, retrieved his homework, and began to read it aloud. He had done his homework diligently, writing down the story of Asab and the Great Yu Kingdom from their first meeting to the establishment of their relationship. Although it only required three hundred words, he wrote more than eight hundred, filling an entire page. By the time he finished reading, the people below were starting to doze off.
In Cheng Wanwan's opinion, this assignment could only be considered passable, not excellent. But there were just too few excellent assignments, which is why Peng Wang was chosen.
She asked Peng Wang to sit down and invited the second student to read aloud. This student was a scholar who stood up somewhat nervously.
He wrote about his feelings about Assab from the perspective of an ordinary person, and his writing was very simple and straightforward, without too much verbose language.
Next was the third student, the one from a slightly lower-ranking family among the spoiled brats. Although his family background was low, he was still the son of a third-rank official. His grandfather and ancestors were military generals, and his father's generation began to pursue a literary career. Perhaps because someone in his family had been to the battlefield, he was deeply moved by yesterday's class.
He didn't write about Asab, but about the war against the Western Rong...
Strictly speaking, this is off-topic.
However, the short text of just over three hundred words was so moving that Cheng Wanwan awarded the student an "excellent" grade.
She smiled and said, "Dou Qingsong, why don't you read your homework to everyone?"
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